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Clth, 10.5 x 14 in. / 124 pgs / 13 color / 55 tritone.

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Catalog: SPRING 2024 p. 3   

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Jim Mangan: The Crick

Text by Judith Freeman, Roman Bateman.

Jim Mangan: The Crick

In the crumbling community of a fundamentalist Mormon sect, the boys who remained behind reinvent themselves as modern-day cowboys

American photographer Jim Mangan began The Crick as a photographic survey of the unorthodox architecture of Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints (FLDS) houses in the Utah-Arizona border town of Short Creek. He soon found that the bigger story lay in a group of teenage boys navigating their disintegrating community, fractured after leader Warren Jeffs was imprisoned in 2011. These subjects were children at the time of the fallout, who remained with their families in Short Creek as others elected to leave the town altogether. The Crick is a meditation on religious succession, patriarchal systems, zealotry and fraternity in the life built by these young men. Mangan’s pictures transport the reader into an alternate reality of the boys’ making: where they explore the rugged terrain of southern Utah, northern Arizona and southern Nevada on horseback, emulating old-time explorers of the Western frontier. His “ecological and sociological approach” to this series, spanning five years, depicts the playfulness of youth against the capricious landscape of the American West. In both their real and imaginary worlds, these subjects have gained a knowledge of and closeness to nature that has largely been lost in the conventions of modern life. The collection of photographs is accompanied by an essay by author Judith Freeman and a text by apostatized former FLDS member and artist Roman Bateman.
Jim Mangan (born 1973) is a photographer and filmmaker best known for his images of the American West. His work has been exhibited at the Deichtorhallen in Hamburg, the Kunst im Tunnel in Düsseldorf and the Utah Museum of Contemporary Art. In 2015, his project Blast was shown at the Sundance Film Festival.


Featured image is reproduced from 'Jim Mangan: The Crick.'

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The Crick' is presented as an instant classic. For anyone intoxicated by the myth of the American cowboy, it’s just that: a modern story with a timeless feel.

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LACY SOTO | DATE 1/20/2024

Artbook at Hauser & Wirth LA Bookstore presents Jim Mangan and Judith Freeman launching 'The Crick'

Artbook at Hauser & Wirth LA Bookstore presents Jim Mangan and Judith Freeman launching 'The Crick'

Join Artbook at Hauser & Wirth Los Angeles Bookstore at 3 PM on Saturday, January 20 for the Los Angeles book launch of The Crick, published by Twin Palms. Photographer Jim Mangan will be in conversation with essayist Judith Freeman, with book signing to follow. Join in-person or livestream on Instagram at @artbookhwla. Register for the event and order a signed copy here!
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CORY REYNOLDS | DATE 10/19/2023

Jim Magnan to launch 'The Crick' at Dashwood Books

Jim Magnan to launch 'The Crick' at Dashwood Books

Thursday, October 19 from 6 to 8 PM, Dashwood Books will host photographer Jim Magnan for the signing of his new book, The Crick, published by Twin Palms Publishers.
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FROM THE ARTBOOK BLOG

CORY REYNOLDS | DATE 1/18/2024

Forsaken modern-day cowboys in Jim Mangan's 'The Crick'

Forsaken modern-day cowboys in Jim Mangan's 'The Crick'

Featured image is reproduced from The Crick, collecting Jim Magnan’s extraordinary photographs of the “lost boys” of the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints, raised by plural families in households with one father and multiple wives, but now cast out since the arrest and imprisonment of polygamist cult leader Warren Jeffs in 2011. “Some of the boys are related by birth—half-brothers with different mothers and the same father—and some are full brothers or cousins,” Judith Freeman writes, “but whatever their familial connections they have formed a kind of band of brothers and are now bonded irrevocably through their history and their love of horses and of each other. … The town where the boys were raised—the Crick—was ruled by a prophet whose word they were bound to obey until the prophet was convicted of sexually abusing minors and sent to prison in 2011, receiving a life sentence, and then things slowly began to change though the prophet still demanded obeisance from his prison cell. During his final days, as he became more paranoid, he excommunicated many people for their sins—for watching a movie, or listening to music, wearing a short-sleeved shirt or showing interest in a girl. Before that time, before the fall of the prophet, many of the teenage boys were cast out, as had been the custom for many generations. They were left to fend for themselves to ensure the older men had no competition for the younger girls. These boys were referred to as the lost boys only they were not lost they were forsaken, cast beyond the pale to fend for themselves in a world they did not know.” continue to blog


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